Ex-NFL player-turned-ad man Don Coleman is having trouble paying the bills, a new lawsuit alleges.

Top executives of Coleman’s GlobalHue firm — which has done work for Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola and Jeep — filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court claiming they have not been paid in months.

“All I can say is we intend to make up back pay in short order,” Coleman said in an email.

The former New Orleans Saint and the New York Jet declined to say whether the firm he started in 1988, which famously put Bob Dylan in a TV spot for Chrysler, is still operational.

The lawsuit claims the company’s employees, including its executive creative director and the former head of the Wal-Mart account, saw their last paychecks on March 15th.

Coleman “repeatedly assured employees that they would be paid for the work that they performed,” the lawsuit said. But the money never came through — even as Coleman continues to assign them work, they said.

One former employee told The Post that the first sign of trouble came in December when the company failed to make good on one of two monthly paychecks. At the time, the company blamed the problem on the bank. Eventually, Coleman held a staff meeting in New York where he confessed to “financial challenges,” this person said. The 6’ 2” linebacker explained that he was in the process of working with investors who would provide enough funding to make sure it never happened again, this person said.

“We were strung along for months and months,” this person said.

The ad agency lost several big accounts this year including UB Bancorp, Autozone and AARP. FIAT Chrysler stopped working with GobalHue last year after five years. Separately, Coleman is being pursued in Manhattan federal court for $1.24 million by a real estate company that says GlobalHue broke its lease for two floors of office space at 123 Williams Street downtown.

Coleman is also being sued in Manhattan federal court by Leonard Howard, who says he was ordered to drive Coleman’s daughter Kelli Coleman around town from morning to night without overtime.

Howard said he was ordered to wait for Kelli Coleman while she “spent long evenings in various clubs in New York City,” and then to pick her up the next day at 8 am to take her to the gym.
He, too, stopped getting paid in March, he said.